Nope. Lower scores mean higher negative correlation w depression and anxiety symptoms. So, connectedness predicts lower depression and anxiety than loss of self.

True I unjustly neglected the yoop, but also I have irrational hope in the future flourishing of Northwest Indiana

Nice

Not trying to dox anyone but does everyone in this thread live in what I'm calling the "Heaven Zone?"

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Because many people's "whole life histories" are radically incomplete, replete with trauma, and full of unfinished narratives. If God is to make good on his promise of wiping away every tear, he'll need to give us more than his memory of our Earthly lives.

cv (means come visit)

I appreciate you being open and vulnerable about your chronic illness. I'm curious if a more dynamic vision of eternal life would be more appealing if you could be assured there would be no suffering?

Nevertheless, one reason I find Barth's eschatological vision horrible is that it doesn't actually offer anything hopeful to the vast majority of people whose lives end too-soon and in tragedy

hca.gilead.org.il/li_match.html

I think the Valhalla comparisons are unfair for a few reasons, not the least of which is the fact that Valhalla is temporary. I'm told the ultimate fate of the universe in Norse mythology is a kind of obliteration into nothingness.

That sounds so utterly horrible to me on so many levels. But I appreciate you explaining it 😌

I hate to have to ask, but can you explain to me like I'm 5 what exactly Barth thinks happens to us as persons after we die/after the resurrection?

Christ didn't assume a lot of material accidents in the Incarnation

he didn’t assume an African or a Chinese body either — there’s no need to get trapped into bad mariology by a bad “metaphysics of gender”

I like how Jordan Peterson doesn't know who Rene Girard is even though people have tried telling him about Rene Girard

Mr. Von Hildebrand I’m sorry I underestimated you